hope - Story 63018 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air crackled with unspoken tension. But as her grandfather, a man of few words, spoke of his change, a lightness spread through Olivia. She felt a lightness, like a burden had been lifted. Her grandfather’s words, usually clipped and formal, were now laced with passion. The old, worn furniture of the living room seemed to gleam in the afternoon sun. She leaned forward, listening intently, eager to hear more.

Emotion: hope

Cluster: Positive / Joy

PC1 (Valence): 3.59 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): -0.12

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion hope. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 hope stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the hope emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the hope vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`de`	1.065
`la`	0.865
`B`	0.465
`🤩`	0.412
`H`	0.407

Suppressed:

`😞`	-0.459
`C`	-0.451
`不`	-0.449
`😣`	-0.443
`S`	-0.442